It started
with cries of “We must end our dependence on foreign oil” and mutated into “DRILL
BABY DRILL”, a thinly veiled attack on the moderates of the country who wanted
to make oil and gas exploration more environmentally safe. They said, often and
loud, “WE NEED THE OIL TO BRING DOWN GAS PRICES!!!” The drum beating was never as loud as during
the 2008 elections. They threatened “IF WE DON’T HAVE A MORE EXTENSIVE KEYSTONE
PIPELINE TO DELIVER CANADIAN TAR SAND OIL TO TEXAS GAS PRICES WILL NEVER COME
DOWN!!!”
Ok, so the
moderates went along and issued more oil and gas drilling permits than any
previous government. They approved fracking for oil and gas. They loosened some
coal environmental regulations. Oil and gas were released in historic
quantities. So much in fact that in many places where gas was found, it is
being burned off in a process called “flaring”. To relieve the pressure on the
wells, and because there is not enough pipe to carry the new gas supplies. And the
oil began to flow.
Ok, gas
prices you ask? Why, they went UP!!
But here is
the ugly truth behind the calloused use of the American Public to get into
America’s vast and strategic energy reserves: EXPORT SALES. Right. Along with
the vast new supplies of energy coming on the market, was the parallel push to
permit natural gas EXPORT terminals, to sell our precious energy on the world
market. And to increase refinery capacity at the expense of the environment to
increase EXPORT of refined products and to increase the EXPORT of crude oil. And to build vast new coal EXPORT facilities
on the West coast to feed the polluting furnaces of China.
Who benefits
from all this drilling and exporting? The same RAPISTS who screw you every time
you buy gas at the pump, or want really cheap natural gas, or fill your propane
tank. The BIG INTERNATIONAL ENERGY COMPANIES and the politicians they subsidize. The companies, by the way, who don’t pay
their taxes, or really invest in America, or even clean up their spills. And
yes, they want the Keystone pipeline finished to deliver Canadian tar sand oil
to Texas for export. We all take the environmental risk of getting the oil, a
very energy intensive process, and the environmental risk to the country as a
whole if the pipe breaks (they always do) and they get the PROFIT.
Men used to
say to women “if RAPE is inevitable, lay back and enjoy it”. Like that? No.
Well, if you don’t get off your collective asses and fight the RAPE OF AMERICA
BY ENERGY CORPORATIONS AND THEIR MINIONS, THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, and then you
might just as well get used to it. Until
Americans really take back the country from the greedy pigs currently trying to
RAPE ALL OF US, you are going to get gang banged forever. Learn to enjoy the
high price of gas, the crappy water and air quality and the changing
environment.
And remember
always: “WOODY TOLD YOU SO”.
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